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Increase in Agentic Traffic Raises Concerns Over Digital Manipulation

Just now November 4, 2026 1 min read 📰 GDELT Historical Archive
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The article discusses a significant increase in agentic traffic to a website, with 300-350K requests daily, all appearing to come from unique IP addresses and mimicking human user behavior. This trend raises concerns about the potential for automated systems to manipulate online interactions, which could have implications for information dissemination in Iran. Understanding this traffic pattern is crucial for assessing the influence of digital manipulation on public opinion in the country.

One of our sites is now seeing 300-350K requests a day and increasing nearly linearly that have the hallmarks of agentic traffic, but where every single request originates from a different IP address, all follow the exact site navigation flow of a human user (increasingly incredibly with the appropriate pauses between pages and navigation actions) […]

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